Cigar-banding device.



PATENTED SEPT. 8, 1908. O. SILGER & I. DEATHERAGE.

CIGAR BANDING DEV-ICE. APPLIGATION FILED JAN{18,1908.

urns 'srarns CIGAR-BANDING DEVICE.

Application filed January 18, 1908.

, To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, CHARLES SILGER and Isaac DEATHERAGE, citizens of the United States of America, residing at Duluth, in the county of St. Louis and State of Minnesota,

have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Cigar-Banding Devices of which the following is such a full, clear, and exact description as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap'pertains to make and use the same.

Our invention seeks to rovide a simple apparatus whereby 4 the placing of bands around cigars will be facilitated and by which the operator will be enabled to place the bands at any desired point of the cigar with certainty. These objects are attained by the use of the device illustrated in the accompanying drawin s and the invention consists in certain nove features of the same as will be hereinafter first fully described and then particularly pointed out in the claimsin the drawings referred to, which show the preferred embodiment of the invention, Figure 1 is a plan view of the device. Fig 2 is an end View of the same. Fig. 3 is a longitudinal section taken on the line a2-x of Fig. 1, and Fig. 4 is a detail section on the line y-y of Fig. 1.

In carrying out our invention, we employ a small table or block, 1, which is to be placed on the bench in front of the workman and which may be rovi'ded with legs, 2, as shown. .A longitudinal slot, 3, of a shape andsize approximating the shape and size of the hands is formed through the body of this block or table and at one end of this slot is provided a reduced-or narrower extension, 4, 1n the side walls of which are narrow vertical slits or notches, 5. A follower, 6, is fitted in the slot 3 and is provided at one end with a somewhat elongated tongue, 7, which engages and plays in the extension 4 of the slot and is provided with narrow slits or notches, 8, in its sides registering with theslits 5 in the walls of the slot. This follower corre sponds in shape to the slot and is fitted to keeper, 10, which is arranged to project over the end of the extension. 4 of the slot 3 and.

thereby rest upon the bands placed upon and carried by the follower. This keeper or re- Specifieation of Letters Patent.

Patented Sept. 8,1808. Serial No. auger.

tain'in block is held in its position, in the form i lustrated, by means of set screws, 11, inserted into the table throu h slots or notches, 12, in the ends of the heeper. At about its center, the keeper is formed or provided with a well or reservoir, 13, which extends to an opening, l l, in the bottom of the keeper directly over the end of the follower so that paste or adhesive substance in the well. flow to the ends of the labels or hands, as will be readily understood. A shown, the well 13 projects upward and rearward and is provided with a cover, 15, in

which is mounted a worm or feed-screw, 16,

having a plunger-head, 17, at its lower end whereby the paste may be fed to the bands as required. AS'li/ sometimes may be more convenient to apply a small quantity of adhesive to the en s of labels or hands at the time they are printed, we contemplate the provision of a wick, 18, which may be placed in the discharge opening 14 and extend across the well and slowly feed to the bands a slight amount of water from a supply placed in the well. Between the keeper and the table are arranged a pair of guide lates, 19, which are clamped in place by the reeper when the set screws 11 are turned home.

These guide plates are formed with depending fingers, 20, which enter the registering slits and 8 so as to pass down and sear against the opposite edges of the bands and thereby aid in maintaining them in the roper osition. If the keeper be slightly oosene ,.the plates may be manually adjusted to the exact width of the bands so that bands of any width may be used in the de vice.

Disposed at right angles to the longitudinal slot 3 and. approximately in the plane of the end of said ,slot, is a stop or rest, 21, consisting of a vertically disposed plate having a tongue 22 extending outward from its lower edge whereby it may be adjustably secured upon the table, the securing means shown being a thumb screw, 23, inserted into the table through a longitudinal slot, 24, in the tongue? The construction and arrangement of the several parts of the device being thus made known, themanner of using the same will, it is thought, be readily understood. The bands or labels are placedon the follower and confined by the walls of the slot and the guide plates with the keeper or reservoir projecting over the ends of the labels. The

transverse" slide or tongue 22 is then adjusted to bring the stop plate or rest to such a point that acigar placed on the table with its end against the rest will extend across the slot and the bands therein so that the top band may be rolled over the cigar at the desired oint. A cigar is indicated in position .in otted lines in Fig. 1. -'lhe desired adjust- :ment of the arts having been effected, the

to band is re ed over the cigar and the cigar w1th the band held thereto is lifted from the table, the band being thereby drawn from.

.under the keeper so that the moistened adhesive-containing end ofthe same may be hands to cigars is ten ered certain by its use so that all bands applied to the cigars of one lot may be rapidly applied to the same at a uniforrn'distance from the ends thereof.

Having thus described our invention, what the application of a band'to eeaava we claini and desire to secure by Letters-Patent is: j

1. A-cigar-banding apparatus comprising a cigar-supporting table provided with a slot across which a cigar may extend, said slot having a reduced extension at one end, a band-supporting follower mounted in the slot and. having a tongue engaging the reduced extension thereof, a keeper arranged above said tongue, and guide plates held by said keeper and extending into the extension of the slot.

2. A cigar ban'ding apparatus comprising a table upon which a cigar may be supported while a band is wrapped around it, the said table having a-slot,to contain the bands and across-which the cigar may extend transversely, a vertically-movable band-supporting follower mounted in said slot, a keeper mounted on the table and extendin across the keeper and extending into the slot.-

In testin' l'ony whereof, We have signed this, specification in the presence of two "subscrib ing witnesses.

' CHARLES SILGER;

-. ISAAC DEATHERAGE.

.Witness'es:

FRANK E. WATsoN, ROBERT C. WEDDELL.

one end of the slot and a guide plate held by 

